Lmao, Te'O is NOT a victim. You guys can't seriously look at all the evidence and think he's been a victim for the last month.

This is absolutely a ridiculous amount of homerism.

A victim as a whole? No, probably not. But he may have been a victim of the hoax as opposed to its architect. If so it would seem, not knowing it was a hoax, he took advantage of the attention and lied about/exaggerated the relationship to make it seem more relevant than it probably was.

If that is what it's all about is someone's sexuality I really feel sorry for all involved because most of us dealt with that issue years ago. In my case our best shooter in my unit was *** and to this day some of us owe him more than we could ever repay.

Well the fact that he came forward with this to ND takes some blame off of him already. The school started a private investigation on it. Is it that inconceivable to think that they wanted to wait until the investigation was over before coming forward to the public?

The fact that Deadspin came forward first doesn't mean that Te'o/ND never would have done so. Does that answer your question?

IF we believe Te'o (and I do not), we should not forget that Te'o took 3 weeks to tell ND. He sat on it from 12/6 until 12/26. Any "extra credit" he gets for telling the school is pretty much null and void in my eyes for spending all of that time lying before even letting Notre Dame start defend itself from the impending media backlash.

Let us remember that on two occasions following the date he claims he learned it was hoax, he VOLUNTARILY brought her up to the media. He was not replying to questions about her; he was beating that "feel sorry for me, I'm awesome" drum on his own.

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This is actually a good Notre Dame story. Nobody died for realsies in this one.